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Debt linked to poor mental health
Debt can worsen people's mental health and people with mental health problems are almost three times as likely to be in debt, according to a report by mental health charity Mind.Over 90 per cent of people with problem debt said it had worsened their mental health. Seventy per cent said ...
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Alan Johnson launches national social care debate
Health secretary Alan Johnson has launched a six-month debate on the future of social care and support services. Regional events will be held to gather views on how to create an affordable system targeted at those most in need.
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£50m for productive ward roll-out
Health secretary Alan Johnson has announced a £50m fund to support the national roll-out of the Productive Ward programme.
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Mind comments on public attitudes to mental illness survey
Commenting on the Department of Health's 2008 survey into public attitudes towards mental ill health, released yesterday, Mind chief executive Paul Farmer said: 'People with mental distress are still confronted with a barrage of fear and misunderstanding.'
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Guidance on changes to acute services
Best practice guidance for patients, the public and NHS staff on the processes underpinning changes to acute NHS services has been published by the Department of Health.
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NHS Confederation responds to Darzi report
Commenting on a report outlining the principles behind junior health minister Lord Darzi's vision for the health service, NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards said: 'This new guidance is very welcome in sharing good practice and helping reassure the public about what they can expect.'
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Darzi report reveals service change plans
Lord Darzi has pledged to put clinicians at the centre of local decisions to change health services.
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Barbara Young sets out vision for Care Quality Commission
Baroness Barbara Young, who is in line to chair the new Care Quality Commission, told MPs today: 'I really want this job.'The Labour peer, who is currently chief executive of the Environment Agency, underwent a grilling by the health select committee in the new-style public job interview.
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Mental health charities respond to cannabis reclassification
Mental health charities have welcomed recommendations by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs for an education campaign and further research on cannabis, but do not want to see more stringent penalties for its use.
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Study on early abortions in non-hospital settings
The Department of Health has published the results of a pilot study on early medical abortions in non-hospital settings.
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Scottish Health and Safety Executive appoints director
Dr Paul Stollard has taken up post as the new director of the Health and Safety Executive in Scotland.
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DH slammed for poor leadership on Modernising Medical Careers
The health select committee's report on Modernising Medical Careers has blamed the programme's problems on leadership weaknesses within the Department of Health.
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UK behind on stroke care - Health Foundation
The UK lags behind other developed nations in stroke care and England is a long way from meeting its own targets, according to a report by the Health Foundation.The charity's report, to be published on Monday, includes data on performance, best practice and cost implications. It shows the UK achieved ...
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Polyclinics are wrong for London
So provided what happens in London is good news for strategic health authorities and ministers - fine. And we naively thought the goal was a patient centred service, writes Roger Goss
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Foundation trusts must improve on MRSA
Monitor has warned four foundation trusts it will intervene if they fail to improve performance on MRSA. Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals, Calderdale and Huddersfield, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Poole Hospital were told they had breached their terms of authorisation.
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Focus on GP hours is too narrow says PCT Network
The government has been warned to broaden its approach to improving primary care services beyond a focus on extended hours.
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Monitor plans for foundation trust failures
Foundation trust regulator Monitor is anticipating that some 47 acute and mental health trusts will not make it to foundation trust status by 2010.
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Media Watch: election time
Most of the weekend was spent dissecting implications of the local elections, which hinted that the next government would be blue.
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DH toughens line on GP exception reporting
Primary care trusts must ensure they have a strategy in place on GP exception reporting, a health inequalities official has warned.
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Darzi review: PCTs told reforms must save lives
Junior health minister Lord Darzi is to tell primary care trusts they can reconfigure local services only where they can prove it will save lives or improve health outcomes.